Ayo Akinfe
When it comes to corn production, we are not doing too badly as we are the 11th largest maize producer in the world with an annual crop of about 11m tonnes
However, our production costs are too high, making imports from countries like the US, Canada, Brazil, Argentina and India cheaper. If you are a Nigerian food...
Ayo Akinfe
Dr Martin Luther King always spoke about "The fierce urgency of now" pointing out that gradualism was the killer of goals and dreams. Are we aware of that in Nigeria at all?
It is projected that by 2050, Nigeria will have a population of 400m, making her the third most populous nation in the world after India and...
Ayo Akinfe
I ask whether Nigerians ever set themselves annual national goals. Growing up as kids, we were all told to make new year resolutions. I wonder why this does not extend to national and developmental matters
Are Nigerians aware of the fact that Unesco advised the country to spend 26% of her national budget on education?...
Ayo Akinfe
Do you that on July 11 1960, Ivory Coast, Dahomey, Upper Volta and Niger Republic all declared their independence from France? Sadly, they did not agree to merge and form one country
That year 1960 was the one which most African nations achieved independence. If we want to be honest about it, after World War Two,...
NIGERIA is no longer poverty capital of the world as the latest statistics from the World Poverty Clock (WPC) show that India has overtaken the country as the nation with the highest number of people living in penury.
Up until now, Nigeria has the highest number of people on earth living in absolute poverty but India has now...
Ayo Akinfe
When I look at the lockdown over Covid-19, I keep seeing parallels with World War Two. During that conflict, nations had to step up the production of new industrial goods like armaments, food was scarce and rationing was introduced in many countries. The US in particular, emerged as an unprecedented industrial economy from...
NIGERIA is projected to become the second most populous nation on earth by 2100 as a recent United Nations (UN) document has estimated that the population will balloon overtaking that of China making the country number two behind India.
According to a recent UN document, by 2030 the world population will be 8.5bn and this...
Ayo Akinfe
As things stand, the US has military bases all over West Africa. For now that is not a problem because we are a safe dumping ground for American goods. However if Nigeria's economy grows to the point whereby we are considered a trading threat, the policy will suddenly change
One other thing Nigerians are refusing to...
Ayo Akinfe
You simply have to give it to India for leveraging on their English-speaking population and making the best out of business process outsourcing (BPO). Virtually every American and British blue chip company has an Indian call centre
As far back as 2012, around 2.8m Indians were working in the BPO sector and the number...
Ayo Akinfe
The largest black nation on earth with a population in excess of 200m
Africa’s largest economy with a gross domestic product (GDP) estimated to total $514bn in 2021 by the IMF
Estimated to become the third most populous country in the world by 2050 behind China and India
The one nation that can rally the 1.2m...
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